English frame, 18th Century. On reverse label, early 19th Century: Collections Baronesse Longueuil / Baron d’Este

The image was copied and enlarged by van Bloemen himself: Busiri Vici 1974, cat. no. 268 („ma di minore qualità“)

We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Jan Kelch, former director of the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Prussian Kulturbesitz, for the valuable information provided..

Until 1964 collection of John Walgrave Halford Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe, 4th Baron Fremantle (1900 – 1994), Swanbourne House (Buckinghamshire) / 1964 Mr. F. Collin / since 1969 private collection, Southern Germany

Auction catalogue: Important Old Masters Including... The Property of The Rt. Hon. Lord Cottesloe, G.B.E., Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1964, lot 108 (£450) / Andrea Busiri Vici: Orizzonte. Jan Frans van Bloemen. E l’origine del paesaggio romano settecentesco, Œuvre-catalogue, Rome 1974, cat. no. 267